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  • Barriers to Dialogue on Deep Adaptation

    Barriers to Dialogue on Deep Adaptation

    The starting point for a generative discussion of the deep adaptation agenda is a difficult one. Because to begin to rigorously and imaginatively discuss this topic first requires us to accept the likelihood of near term societal collapse. By which I mean that within ten years, in whatever society we are living in, that we… Read more

  • Dialogue on Deep Adaptation

    Dialogue on Deep Adaptation

    5000 downloads within a week and over 100 emails in my inbox, the release of my study on climate collapse and deep adaptation generated more attention than I had anticipated. It was written about in New York Magazine and Counter Punch. And even in Pakistan. The biblical weather the northern hemisphere has been experiencing during… Read more

  • The study on collapse they thought you should not read – yet

    The study on collapse they thought you should not read – yet

    A research paper concluding that climate-induced collapse is now inevitable, was recently rejected by anonymous reviewers of an academic journal. It has been released directly by the Professor who wrote it, to promote discussion of the necessary deep adaptation to climate chaos. “I am releasing this paper immediately, directly, because I can’t wait any longer… Read more

  • Emotional support in face of climate tragedy

    Emotional support in face of climate tragedy

    [updated 5th August 2020] If you have come to recognise that climate change will lead to a near term collapse in our way of life, or even worse, then this can be a very difficult realisation to process, integrate into our lives, or communicate to other people. It is normal to feel strong difficult emotions… Read more

  • Racism and Lovephobia in Media and Ourselves

    Racism and Lovephobia in Media and Ourselves

    WhatsApp groups are a strange thing. One minute people are wishing each other happy birthday and the next minute angrily debating current political flashpoints. You know, the ones we have all been told to debate by mass media. One group I belong to includes about 60 past participants on a Harvard Uni Global Leadership course.… Read more

  • Doctoral Study on Deep Adaptation to Climate Disruption

    Doctoral Study on Deep Adaptation to Climate Disruption

    Some of us are waking up to the climate tragedy we face. To the disruptions to our way of life that will be unfolding over the next decade or so. To the inevitable collapse of our social and economic systems. If this sounds too dark to you, please catch up on the latest climate science… Read more

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